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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
Prabhu0505
New Contributor II

Completed my learning path.

LTR001
Visitor II

Completed LEARNING PATHWAY 3: DATA ANALYSTS, pls distribute vouchers. Have a good day

Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

We'll distribute a voucher to each eligible participant on Feb 06 🙂 

Naseem_Nadaf
New Contributor II

Completed LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING

Monish_bala
New Contributor II

@Jim_Anderson 
Completed the learning path.
LEARNING PATHWAY 3: DATA ANALYSTS

shilpashivamall
New Contributor II

@Jim_Anderson , Hi. Yesterday I could complete the 4 modules from Data Engineering Associate. Willing to take Professional Data engineering exam. Is the 50% voucher is still be valid?

Yes, to confirm you can use the voucher on any Databricks Certification exam 🙂 

shanthan
New Contributor II

Hi @Jim 
I just completed LEARNING PATHWAY 4: ASSOCIATE ML PRACTITIONERS module. Looking forward for the voucher
Thanks

ShahajVijayan
Visitor II

I have completed the Data Analysts course. How can I be eligible for a discount?

We'll distribute a voucher to each eligible participant on Feb 06 🙂 

 

Hi  Jim_Anderson,

I have finished all four modules in Learning Path 2: Professional Data Engineering within the time limit. However, I haven't received the voucher in my email yet.

Could you please let me know when I should expect to receive it?

My Databricks learning account:uwayo2006@gmail.com 

Best regards,

Uwayo Jacques

Gopal555
New Contributor II

I have completed LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING. Great course material and great learning experience !!

DB_Ninza_Jha
New Contributor II

Awesome, I have completed LEARNING PATHWAY 3: DATA ANALYSTS.  Nice Courrse Content and to the point training presentations. Looking forward to learning more and Discount voucher as promised on Feb 06, 2026

Glen1
New Contributor II

Hello. I completed the following and please send my coupon:

LEARNING PATHWAY 5: PROFESSIONAL ML PRACTITIONERS
Advanced Machine Learning Operations
Machine Learning at Scale

joedigeronimo
New Contributor II

Completed DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER 

BDEVULAP
New Contributor II

I have successfully completed Learning Pathway 1: Associate Data Engineering. The course material was excellent and extremely helpful in building my understanding.

Thank you for providing such a well-structured and valuable learning experience.

Thanks for the feedback! 🙂 

Abisheak
New Contributor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson ,

I have successfully completed all the four modules in the Learning path 1 - Associate Data Engineering 

Es7eban
New Contributor

I want to share I finished the ASSOCIATE ML PRACTITIONERS path. Thanks so much, It was a great experienced an now I'm ready to take my certification test.

See you!

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Congrats! 🙂