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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
1,939 Comments
AshokP
Visitor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson, I completed modules of Data Engineer Associate learning pathway. But I didn't receive the voucher yet. Could you please check.
Email : ashokpradhan.rkl@gmail.com

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Unfortunately both the Build Data Pipelines with Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines and DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering modules are still listed as in progress.

Its showing all topics are completed.Not sure how its showing in progress.

Dataengineer25
New Contributor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson ,

Received my voucher today!! Thank you Databricks for providing this opportunity to learn and grow with wonderful community!

Thanks for participating! Best of luck with the certification too! 🙂 

Shisodia
Visitor II

Hey, where is my discount coupon. I had finished all the modules. Have verified it also.

All of the incentives were distributed earlier today. If you haven't received it in either your inbox or spam folder, please DM me the email associated with your academy account so I can investigate, thanks! 🙂 

Erika_Ramos
New Contributor

Hi  @Jim_Anderson I completed EARNING PATHWAY 4: ASSOCIATE ML PRACTITIONERS , But I didn't receive the voucher yet. Could you please check.: erika.ramosramos@outlook.com.

Hey Erika, it looks like the email was sent earlier today - let me DM you the code again for your reference 🙂 

NithyashreeBala
New Contributor II

Thank you for the voucher. I received it

Congratulations! 🙂 

DbaGeo
Visitor II

Hi  @Jim_Anderson  I completed LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING , But I didn't receive the voucher yet. Could you please check.: uepa.pap@gmail.com.

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Unfortunately both the Build Data Pipelines with Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines and DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering are showing as incomplete 

hi @Jim_Anderson thanks for Answer 
Spark's is not on the associate's list and the devops one I did in Portuguese, isn't it worth it??

O took the curse

Build Data Pipelines with Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines

and not the spark 

The one above that was on the list
and devops in portugues

plzzz

MounikaPentukar
Visitor II

I haven't received my voucher yet.

My email:mounikapentukar@gmail.com

 

Unfortunately none of the modules are showing as complete on your Academy account

parth_db
New Contributor III

Hi @Jim_Anderson, I completed all 4 modules of Data Engineer Associate learning pathway. But I didn't receive the voucher yet. Could you please check.
Email : parthgulavani0@gmail.com

It looks like you were included in the email distribution earlier today. I will DM you the code again for your reference 🙂 

Hey, I found my code in my promotions folder. Thanks again for forwarding!