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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
1,948 Comments
RishavJha
Visitor II
‎01-20-2026 01:11 AM

any module is fine right?? and we can do any certification even if it's not aligned with what courses we have accomplished.
Like if we did data analysts one we can go for genai cert. correct ?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to RishavJha
‎01-20-2026 02:39 AM

Yes, so long as you complete a learning pathway, the discount can be applied to any Databricks Certification exam

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Alexander5
Visitor II
‎01-20-2026 01:24 AM

Hi, I want to know if I can get vouchers for both Associate data engineer and Gen AI ,post completion of both, or only 1 voucher is eligible for one account. Will complete both courses then .

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Alexander5
‎01-20-2026 02:39 AM

each participant is limited to one voucher. 

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tuser
Databricks Partner
‎01-20-2026 01:54 AM

Do we complete the courses from customer academy only or from Partner academy also eligible for coupon codes?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to tuser
‎01-20-2026 02:39 AM

this event is exclusively for customer academy. 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to tuser
‎01-20-2026 03:46 AM

this event is exclusively aimed at customer academy users

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aiden_liu
New Contributor
‎01-20-2026 03:18 AM

The first point is really 'Aha'!

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Poojanshah
Visitor II
‎01-20-2026 04:46 AM

Hi team ,

Have completed Associate training hoping for the voucher 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Poojanshah
‎01-20-2026 05:57 AM

Congratulations! All vouchers will be distributed on February 06

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Poojanshah
Visitor II
‎01-20-2026 04:48 AM

Hi team ,

Have completed Associate training hoping for the voucher 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Poojanshah
‎01-20-2026 05:56 AM

Congratulations! All vouchers will be distributed on February 06

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Prajwal148
Visitor II
‎01-20-2026 05:14 AM

I have completed LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING, When will I be receiving 50% discount on any Databricks Certification 
Voucher? 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Prajwal148
‎01-20-2026 05:56 AM

As per the post, all vouchers will be distributed on February 06

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lupsecris
New Contributor II
‎01-20-2026 06:16 AM

Hello,

I finished the modules for Data Engineer Associate. 
Good learning pathway!

Thanks!

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to lupsecris
‎01-20-2026 07:39 AM

Thanks for participating and best of luck with the certification! 🙂

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JuanDaniel2000
New Contributor
‎01-20-2026 07:07 AM

Hi, if I complete all the modules of one of the listed learning pathways then how it will be checked that I have successfully completed that learning pathway and therefore be elegible for the discount in the Databricks Certification?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to JuanDaniel2000
‎01-20-2026 07:39 AM

This will be done on the backend of our Academy system.

RadAntonio
New Contributor II
‎01-20-2026 07:17 AM

Hi, 
I just finished the APACHE SPARK DEVELOPER, Learning pathway 7.
Very good materials. I recommend

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to RadAntonio
‎01-20-2026 07:39 AM

Thanks for participating! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the content

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