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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
anilreddys
Visitor II

Hello @Jim_Anderson

I completed the LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING within the event deadline, but I haven't received my voucher yet. Could you please assist me? 

My email is: anilreddys.bi@gmail.com

Thank you!!

Unfortunately the Build Data Pipelines with Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines module is still shown as in progress

Bharathbk11
New Contributor II

@Jim_Anderson I have completed the the 4 modules from learning pathway 1 and still didn't received any mail regarding incentives, when will I get those?

@Jim_Anderson No worries I have received the code. It was in promotion tab

Harshi_SK_1993
Visitor II

Hello @Jim_Anderson ,

I have not received any coupon code yet.
I have completed all the modules under LEARNING PATHWAY 2: PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING

My Email Address is harshithsk007@gmail.com

It looks like the email was sent on Feb 06, but I will share again for your reference 🙂 

srinija12
Visitor II

Hello Jim,

I've been using databricks academy for long time and when I heard about the certificiation voucher, I have one course left in module which was completed. Today is 6th Feb and I didnt receive any certification voucher. Could you please look into it?

Please DM me the email associated with your academy account so I can investigate, thanks! 🙂 

Vishnu222
Visitor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson , 

I have completed all the modules under LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING but I have not recieved the voucher yet . Can you please check it once,my email associated with the academy account is vvvarma2001@gmail.com

unfortunately only the Data Ingestion with Lakeflow Connect module is listed as complete

Shravani796
Visitor II

I have completed the modules. But haven't received the voucher mail. Please help. This is my email. Shravani.7796@gmail.com 

 

It looks like the email was sent on Feb 06, but I will share again for your reference 🙂

CodeGeek
Visitor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson , I have completed all 4 modules for GenAI learning pathway but haven't received any voucher yet on mail id : dipandebnath23@gmail.com
Please can you look into this.

Unfortunately the Generative AI Application Deployment and Monitoring module was completed on Feb 04, after the cutoff date for this event

Hi @Jim_Anderson , thanks for the response. But I have already the module by 30th Jan, 2026 in the event period. There was a technical glitch showing in progress of the module even though all sections were completed.

So, I had raised the request on 30th Jan to the Databricks support team to fix it and they reverted back by 4th showing completion of the module. Please refer the screenshot for the same and update on the event voucher.

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

As a reminder

  • All incentives have now been distributed to eligible participants
  • Please check the inbox and spam folder for the address associated with your Databricks Customer Academy account
  • The email will have the subject: Thank you for participating in the Databricks Virtual Learning Festival!
  • The email will contain your unique 50% discount code, valid on any Databricks Certification until 02 May 2026

If you have not received the email and believe you have met the eligibility criteria, please Directly Message me so I can investigate further.

Please ensure you provide the email associated with your Customer Academy account - I will need this to investigate the issue.

Thank you! 🙂 

Hi Jim,

Thank you very much for organising this event.

The learning paths and trainings are very insightful. And I had a lot of fun learning. I have received a voucher code in spam mail via airtable.
Can I apply this only once or can I apply this voucher for registering multiple certifications?

Thanks again for the 50% voucher. Can't wait to try it and avail discount.

Regards,

Sriram Unnam

Thanks for participating, Sriram!

To confirm, your unique voucher code can only be applied to one databricks certification exam registration. If you'd like to qualify for another, please participate in our next event in April. 

Have a great weekend! 🙂

Hi Jim,

I had completed all 4 modules from associate data engineering.

Appreciate if you can verify, if i am eligible for discount voucher?

Email: ravi.march@gmail.com

Regards,

Ravi

 

 

LoneRonin47
Visitor II

I did not receive the discount coupon even after completing all module of associate data engineering path.