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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
1,941 Comments
prasannadata
New Contributor
In response to MadhurJain
‎02-02-2026 09:16 PM

If you got certificate at the end of each module then you are completed all Jose modules within time

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Siddharth_Dey
Visitor II
‎01-31-2026 05:00 AM

Completed Data Engineer Associate Pathway yesterday. 

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SiddharthDeyInd
New Contributor II
‎01-31-2026 05:13 AM

I have completed my pathway

Mvelase
New Contributor II
‎01-31-2026 06:47 AM

Completed the pathway, great initiative 

koalatitude
Visitor II
‎01-31-2026 08:36 AM

@Jim_Anderson  Hi Jim. I just realized not all sections in the modules are marked completed by 01/30/26. Am I still have chance to get the coupon if finish al today?

 

 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to koalatitude
‎02-02-2026 01:35 AM

Unfortunately not 

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_dungtran
Visitor II
‎01-31-2026 01:57 PM

Hi @StephanieAlba @Jim_Anderson I saw the event title mentioned from Jan 09 - Jan 30 but Start and End time mentioned till Jan 31. What is the right one? I finished all courses of Learning Pathway 1 by Jan 29, but till last night I realized the course 3 wasn't marked as completed because I did go through the last page (resource page). However, I finished it on 01/31/2026 at 12:34 am. Hope I was still on time.

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ChristianRRL
Honored Contributor
‎01-31-2026 02:41 PM

Just wrapped up LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING!

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Uttej_Srinivas
New Contributor II
‎01-31-2026 03:06 PM

Just finished the LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING - looking forward to receiving the discount voucher 

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Ashash12
New Contributor II
‎01-31-2026 03:46 PM

Thank you! Finished LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING and LEARNING PATHWAY 8:  DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER. Looking forward to receiving the discount voucher and the lab access!

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seenu0104
Visitor II
In response to Ashash12
‎01-31-2026 10:31 PM

Will we get one discount coupon for each course completion? In this case, will we get two coupons?  @Jim_Anderson  Can you please comment?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to seenu0104
‎02-02-2026 01:36 AM

No, each individual is limited to one voucher per event

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Vickyg_11
Visitor II
‎01-31-2026 06:52 PM

Completed the learning path

LEARNING PATHWAY 3: DATA ANALYSTS

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Akhilmahajan
New Contributor
‎01-31-2026 07:29 PM

Completed Data Warehousing with Databricks course.

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Mai_DM
New Contributor II
‎01-31-2026 10:05 PM

I finished the Associate Data Engineering learning path over the past two days.
nice courses 

Data_Engineer_A
Visitor II
‎02-01-2026 03:56 AM

where can we find the code files used in lab demos ?

 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Data_Engineer_A
‎02-02-2026 01:36 AM

Hands on are exclusively available through the Databricks Academy Labs subscription

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DataNerder
New Contributor II
‎02-01-2026 08:55 AM

@Jim_Anderson  I completed all four modules in the Apache Spark Developer Plan by January 31. How do we confirm whether my learning completion was successfully recorded in the system?. After finishing the modules, I received an “Introduction to Spark” badge from Accredible, but I didn’t see anything indicating completion of the full plan. Does that badge mean my full participation/completion was captured, or is there an additional step I need to take to trigger the full-plan confirmation?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to DataNerder
‎02-02-2026 01:37 AM

Check under the My Activities section within the user menu in the top left hand side. Under courses, so long as each module within the learning pathway has been logged as completed within the applicable dates, rest assured you'll be included in the voucher distribution on Feb 06 🙂 

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RomanFeofanov
New Contributor
‎02-01-2026 01:53 PM

Completed all modules of these pathways withing the time window (last module was completed on 29/01/2026):

  • LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING
  • LEARNING PATHWAY 8: DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER

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