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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

Received @Jim_Anderson 

@Naren.Samurai
AmanDeep09
Visitor II

Hey @Jim_Anderson 

I have completed all 4 modules under Associate Data Engineering Pathway . But I haven't received my certificate voucher. 

 

We have only just finished the distribution, so please check your inbox for an email titled 'Thank you for participating in the Databricks Virtual Learning Festival!'

Please feel free to DM me with the email associated with your academy account if not, and I'll investigate further 🙂 

AkilaA
New Contributor III

Thank you Jim for voucher!

saikiranpabbu
New Contributor II

I Have completed ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING .. looking forward to receiving the discount voucher 🙂

 

therealalmight
New Contributor II

has anyone received the voucher yet? Because I haven't received the voucher yet.

We have only just finished the distribution, so please check your inbox for an email titled 'Thank you for participating in the Databricks Virtual Learning Festival!'

Please feel free to DM me with the email associated with your academy account if not, and I'll investigate further 🙂 

LakshmiRajendra
New Contributor II

Hi All,

Did any one received the Databricks Voucher Today Feb 6th ? 

Regards,

Lakshmi 

Hey Lakshmi,

We have only just finished the distribution, so please check your inbox for an email titled 'Thank you for participating in the Databricks Virtual Learning Festival!'

Please feel free to DM me with the email associated with your academy account if not, and I'll investigate further 🙂 

amarmol
New Contributor II

Voucher still not received.

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

We have only just finished the distribution, so please check your inbox for an email titled 'Thank you for participating in the Databricks Virtual Learning Festival!'

Please feel free to DM me with the email associated with your academy account if not, and I'll investigate further 🙂 

CodeGeek
Visitor II

@Jim_Anderson  I have completed the all 4 modules of GenAI engineering but still I haven't received the coupon voucher yet. 
Please can you comment on this.

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We have only just finished the distribution, so please check your inbox for an email titled 'Thank you for participating in the Databricks Virtual Learning Festival!'

Please feel free to DM me with the email associated with your academy account if not, and I'll investigate further 🙂 

kartik_parashar
Visitor II

@Jim_Anderson  I have completed the all 4 modules of ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING but still I haven't received the coupon voucher yet. 
Please help..

We have only just finished the distribution, so please check your inbox for an email titled 'Thank you for participating in the Databricks Virtual Learning Festival!'

Please feel free to DM me with the email associated with your academy account if not, and I'll investigate further 🙂 

RMSaravanaKumar
New Contributor II

Hi,@Jim_Anderson

Thanks, I have finally received the voucher. It offers great learning and a fantastic community.

Hi @RMSaravanaKumar from which email id we receive the voucher?

Hi @gdineshkumar403 

I received voucher on the same email i used to login to community.databricks

Could you please let me know the email ID from where you received voucher?

To confirm, the email will have been sent to the primary address associated with your Customer Academy account, so please check your inbox for an email titled 'Thank you for participating in the Databricks Virtual Learning Festival!'

Please feel free to share the email associated with your academy account if not, and I'll investigate further.