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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

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

akoni
Visitor II

Thank you. I received my voucher. Really encouraging incentive.I have a quick question. I completed 2 courses within the time window. Am I meant to receive 1 or 2 vouchers? Happy either way but it would be useful to know.

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Congratulations! Please note each participant is limited to one voucher per event

Trushna-39
Visitor II

I have completed the course before deadline but haven't received any voucher yet.

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

Gustavo_hhenr
Visitor II

Hi, @Jim_Anderson!

I have completed the courses on time, but not receive the voucher yet

I can prove.

 

Acredito que nessa foto voce consegue ver que os 4 mini cursos: 

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

They are completed. I finished them within the deadline. Could you please check the status of my voucher?
I’ve been waiting a long time to take the exam in order to obtain the Associate Data Engineering certification
Email: gustavohenrique063@gmail.com

Gustavo_hhenr
Visitor II

Hi, @Jim_Anderson!

I have completed the courses on time, but not receive the voucher yet

I can prove.

 

I believe you can see in this photo the 4 mini-courses:

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

They are completed. I finished them within the deadline. Could you please check the status of my voucher?
I’ve been waiting a long time to take the exam in order to obtain the Associate Data Engineering certification
Email: gustavohenrique063@gmail.com

Hello Gustavo,

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

CodeGeek
Visitor II

@Jim_Anderson  when will be the next phase of training will be scheduled in 2026. I want to try it in next time since this time due to platform issues I was unable to show completion of all four modules of Generative AI learning pathway.
email - dipandebnath23@gmail.com

Currently planned for April, the dates will be confirmed in the next few weeks 🙂 

rameshmass
Visitor II

I have completed the course but not yet received coupon.

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

thanks this is my mail

solsoft7632@gmail.com

be1ng_kr1sh
Visitor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson , I have finished the LEARNING PATHWAY 3: DATA ANALYSTS courses, but still haven't received the 50% exam voucher. Is there any support team who can help mw with this?

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

Thanks for looking into it @Jim_Anderson.

Email: krishbhattacharyya123@gmail.com

I will DM you separately 🙂 

Shephali
Visitor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson ,

I have completed the LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING course but didn't receive the voucher.

shephali.bhuyan@gmail.com

thanks!

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

sharma_vishal
New Contributor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson ,

I have completed the one module of course but didn't receive the voucher.

Vissharma1418@gmail.com

thanks!

vishal sharma