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Self-Paced Learning Festival: 09 January - 30 January 2026

Published on ‎12-09-2025 03:56 AM by Databricks Employee | Updated on ‎01-02-2026 02:50 AM

🚀 Grow Your Skills and Earn Rewards! 🚀
 📅 Mark your calendar: January 09 – January 30, 2026

🎉 Join us for a three-week event dedicated to learning, upskilling, and advancing your career in data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI. Whether you’re new to the field or aiming to deepen your knowledge, this is a great opportunity to invest in your professional development alongside a global community.

🎟️ Finish all of the modules listed within at least one of the self-paced learning pathways below within Customer Academy during the event window to receive:
 ✨ 50% discount on any Databricks Certification
 ✨ 20% discount on a yearly Databricks Academy Labs subscription

💬 All Incentives will be distributed to the eligible participants on 06 February 2026, after the event has concluded. These incentives will be sent to the email associated with your Customer Academy account.

⚠️ Note: Please ensure every component of the course is marked as completed (including any course introduction sections) during the eligibility window to confirm your learning pathway is properly recorded and to qualify for the incentives.

Start exploring our learning pathways below!

LEARNING PATHWAY

CUSTOMER ACADEMY ENROLLMENT LINKS

LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Data Engineer Learning Plan
  1. Data Ingestion with Lakeflow Connect
  2. Deploy Workloads with Lakeflow Jobs
  3. Build Data Pipelines with Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines
  4. DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering

LEARNING PATHWAY 2: PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Data Engineer Learning Plan
  1. Databricks Streaming and Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines
  2. Databricks Data Privacy
  3. Databricks Performance Optimisation
  4. Automated Deployment with Databricks Asset Bundles

LEARNING PATHWAY 3: DATA ANALYSTS

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete both modules from the Data Analyst Learning Plan
  1. AI/BI for Data Analysts
  2. SQL Analytics on Databricks

LEARNING PATHWAY 4: ASSOCIATE ML PRACTITIONERS

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Machine Learning Practitioner Learning Plan
  1. Data Preparation for Machine Learning
  2. Machine Learning Model Development
  3. Machine Learning Model Deployment
  4. Machine Learning Operations

LEARNING PATHWAY 5: PROFESSIONAL ML PRACTITIONERS

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA

Please complete both modules from the Machine Learning Practitioner Learning Plan
  1. Advanced Machine Learning Operations
  2. Machine Learning at Scale

LEARNING PATHWAY 6:  GENERATIVE AI ENGINEERING

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Generative AI Engineering Learning Plan
  1. Generative AI Solution Development
  2. Generative AI Application Development
  3. Generative AI Application Evaluation and Governance 
  4. Generative AI Application Deployment and Monitoring

LEARNING PATHWAY 7:  APACHE SPARK DEVELOPER

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Apache Spark™ Developer Learning Plan
  1. Introduction to Apache Spark™
  2. Developing Applications with Apache Spark™
  3. Stream Processing and Analytics with Apache Spark™
  4. Monitoring and Optimizing Apache Spark™ Workloads on Databricks

LEARNING PATHWAY 8:  DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 3 modules from the Data Warehousing Practitioner Learning Plan
  1. Data Warehousing with Databricks
  2. SQL Programming and Procedural Logic in Databricks
  3. Data Modelling Strategies

Happy learning! 📚🎓🧑‍💻🧑‍

#Databricks #MachineLearning #DataEngineering #AI #GenerativeAI #DataAnalysis #Upskill #Certification #TechCareers #LearningFestival #DataScience #AICommunity #DatabricksAcademy #DataSkills #AITraining #LearntoEarn


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Start:
Fri, Jan 9, 2026 04:00 AM PST
End:
Sat, Jan 31, 2026 04:00 AM PST
1,943 Comments
Srishti_12
Visitor II
In response to Matthew_7
‎01-17-2026 02:02 AM

i cannot find that

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Matthew_7
New Contributor II
In response to Srishti_12
‎01-17-2026 02:15 AM

It appears there's no separate path for Associate Data Engineering -Here's the link for a complete Data Engineering that combines the Associate DE & Professional DE: https://customer-academy.databricks.com/learn/learning-plans/10/data-engineer-learning-plan

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Matthew_7
New Contributor II
In response to Matthew_7
‎01-17-2026 02:21 AM

However, if you choose to stick with Associate DE, then follow through with the prescribed courses by Databricks as follows:

Data Ingestion with Lakeflow Connect
Deploy Workloads with Lakeflow Jobs
Build Data Pipelines with Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines
DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Srishti_12
‎01-19-2026 01:37 AM

The enrolment links are listed next to each learning pathway within the table of the original post

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kartheekpaidipa
Visitor II
‎01-16-2026 05:29 PM

Do we need to wait till the event completed to get the incentives emailed? or will be shared as soon as the learning path is completed, Incentives will be shared by DB team ?

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Jmig
Visitor II
In response to kartheekpaidipa
‎01-16-2026 11:36 PM

I am pretty sure they said it will be made available on Feb 6th, but feel free to correct me

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to kartheekpaidipa
‎01-19-2026 01:37 AM

All vouchers will be distributed on Feb 06

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Srishti_12
Visitor II
‎01-17-2026 01:37 AM

how to access the labs to perform the labs exercise

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Srishti_12
‎01-19-2026 01:45 AM

Hands on labs are not included within the self paced initiative. We’ll be providing a 20% discount on the Databricks Academy Labs subscription to participants on Feb 06

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dinesh1502
Visitor II
‎01-17-2026 11:25 AM

Hi. I have completed all the learning paths before the event started. In the course module, it shows that I have already completed them. I also read in the comments that eligibility for the voucher is if the modules are completed during the event window. Is there any solution for my situation? If I retake the course during the event period, will I be eligible for the voucher?

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hdehenrique_aws
New Contributor
In response to dinesh1502
‎01-17-2026 02:37 PM

I also completed the entire learning path before the event, totaling 27 completed courses.
Is there any way for me to obtain the voucher?

Henrique Ferreira Santos
Senior Data Engineer | Data Platforms & Lakehouse Architecture
Databricks • Spark • Delta Lake • AWS
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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to dinesh1502
‎01-19-2026 01:46 AM

Unfortunately not. You could create a new account and complete one of the learning pathways with an alternative email

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hdehenrique1
Visitor II
‎01-17-2026 02:42 PM

I completed all the courses in the learning path before the event started. Would I still be eligible to receive the discounted voucher in this case?

If so, could you please advise on how I should proceed?

https://customer-academy.databricks.com/legacy/lms/index.php%3Fr%3DmyActivities/index

Otherwise, would I need to create a new account with a different email address and retake the courses during the event period?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to hdehenrique1
‎01-19-2026 01:47 AM

The only solution would be to create an alternative account

spathak
New Contributor II
‎01-17-2026 03:58 PM

Happy Learning!

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AJLim
Visitor II
‎01-17-2026 07:42 PM

Hi @Jim_Anderson 

 

I have completed the ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING learning path. please see image below

AJLim_0-1768707639491.png

in earlier instructions to other users you mentioned checking "My Transcript" to check whether the modules are complete but I do not see this anywhere. 

Can you advice where to look and can you confirm if this is sufficient to receive the voucher? 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to AJLim
‎01-19-2026 01:48 AM

It looks like the screenshot is from the transcripts page. To confirm, this is sufficient to meet the qualification criteria. 

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Divya8
New Contributor II
‎01-18-2026 03:24 AM

Hey Databricks Fam!🖖🏻
I’m elated to share that I’ve just finished Learning Pathway 1: Associate Data Engineering ✨
Onto the next one🙂
Happy learning, everyone!🌻

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Divya8
‎01-19-2026 01:48 AM

Congratulations! I hope you enjoyed the course 

rvsuilic
Visitor II
‎01-18-2026 08:06 AM

Hi Jim,

1) Please please please get a FAQ going for this conversation. It is tired to see the same questions being asked over and over again by people who could be bothered to go through the conversation. A FAQ would hopefully reduce all this repetition.

2) I have completed viewing  the training material for DE Assoc. One very huge frustration is the multitude of clickable links in the slides and course videos, that are of course not clickable to us. The frustration is that the actual underlying URL could have been provided as text in the slides/videos, but are not. So we cannot even OCR the URL and manyally enter into a browser. I think this is a big issue for this method of training, and I actually have reported this before to an instructor when I was still at a partner.

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