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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
1,940 Comments
BhanuSrinivas
New Contributor II

Hi Jim,

Completed LEARNING PATHWAY 8:  DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER . 

Nethsara98
Visitor II

I have completed the "LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING" path today.

How can I be elegible for discount?

vineethreddy17
Visitor II

Thanks for the opportunity.

Completed LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING

Shraddha26
Visitor II

Hi Team!!

I have completed all the 4 modules of Associate Data Engineering and hope to get the voucher. Thanks databricks for this opportunity.

jipc_3
Visitor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson,
I have completed LEARNING PATHWAY 3: DATA ANALYSTS
 and looking forward to take Certification exam soon. 

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vedclove
Visitor II

Completed the Associate Data Engineering Learning path looking forward for the certification coupon.

Thank you Databricks for this opportunity.

RaviC
New Contributor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson, Can you please advise whether the festival is thru Jan 30th PST (before midnight) or GMT.

V7ADB
Visitor II

Hi Team!!
I have completed all the 4 modules of Associate Data Engineering and hope to get the voucher. Looking forward to pass this exam soon.
Thanks databricks for this opportunity.

velvizhi
New Contributor II

Hi Jim,

I have completed the LEARNING PATHWAY 2: PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING, thank you for organizing this event!! 

Thanks for participating 🙂 

luish94
New Contributor II

Hello @Jim_Anderson , I have completed the LEARNING PATH 2: PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING path. See you soon.

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Congratulations! 🙂 

Sindhu2
New Contributor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson , I have completed all 4 modules of LEARNING PATHWAY: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING and thank you data bricks for the opportunity. Looking forward for the certification coupon soon.

V Sindhu Sri
Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Thanks for participating! 🙂 

AjithKumar08
New Contributor

Hi Team,

I have successfully completed all the 4 modules of Learning Pathway 1: Associate Data Engineering as part of the Databricks event and am looking forward to receiving the certification coupon to attend the Data Engineer Associate exam.

Thanks for organizing the event.

Congratulations! Best of luck with the certification! 🙂 

SandeshMS
New Contributor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson ,

I have completed all 4 modules from LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING!!
Waiting to hear about Voucher.

Thank You

 

SG_01
New Contributor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson,
I have completed LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING. Looking forward to get the voucher and getting certified from Databricks soon.
Thank You!

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SridharKintali9
New Contributor II

I have completed the course

DhivyaKeerthana
New Contributor III

I have completed LEARNING PATHWAY 2: PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING