January 2026
Your January Training Path
Start 2026 strong with hands-on workshops designed to help you master the Data Intelligence Platform. Whether you're just getting started or ready to deploy production AI, we've got you covered.
All workshops are free, virtual and include live demos with expert-led guidance. Register today to secure your spot.
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Week 1: January 6 to 9
Embedded Analytics with Databricks AI/BI
Get hands-on guidance on embedding Databricks AI/BI Dashboards and Genie into internal and external applications. You'll learn how to integrate powerful analytics and conversational AI capabilities, enabling users to make informed decisions directly within their workflow.
- • Overview of embedded analytics with Databricks AI/BI
- • Embedding dashboards with iframe-based and token-based methods
- • Embedding AI/BI Genie with the Genie Conversational APIs
Production-Ready Agents on Databricks
Discover how to build, optimize and deploy high-quality AI agent systems using Databricks Agent Bricks and the Mosaic AI Agent Framework. You'll learn how to deliver real business outcomes quickly, efficiently and securely.
- • Agent Bricks fundamentals for creating powerful AI agents without coding
- • End-to-end productionization from model selection to deployment and monitoring
- • Seamless integration with Unity Catalog, MLflow and Databricks security features
Building AI Systems with Databricks: From Concept to Deployment
Embark on a journey into AI with the Databricks platform, where governed data meets cutting-edge AI innovation. You'll learn how to enhance traditional machine learning models by integrating generative AI capabilities, such as agent workflows, to unlock new levels of intelligence and automation.
- • Vector search within Databricks to enhance your generative AI applications
- • Embedding models to transform data for generative models
- • AI Playground to experiment with foundational models
- • Pulling open-source foundational models into your workflows
- • Governing all your AI assets using Unity Catalog
Intro to Databricks
Designed for users who are completely new to the platform or have minimal experience. You'll get an introductory tour of the platform and see how it can simplify and accelerate your data projects. Perfect for understanding the basics of what Databricks is and why organizations adopt it.
- • What is Databricks and why use it
- • Hands-on platform walkthrough and key features
- • Basic querying, transformations and simple visualizations
- • Tips and tricks to make your life easier
Lakebase: Fully Managed Postgres for the Lakehouse
Learn how Lakebase is a fully managed serverless, scalable and resilient Postgres database that offers low-latency reads and writes to unlock operational and transactional use cases. Completely integrated with the Data Intelligence Platform with access to the same tables that power your analytical and AI workloads.
- • Reverse ETL for syncing curated data into operational systems
- • Real-time data serving for dashboards and apps with ultra-low latency
- • Online feature store for serving featurized data to models
- • Agent memory for storing state for AI agents
- • Data store for applications and real-time geospatial use cases
Week 2: January 12 to 16
ETL: Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines & Structured Streaming
Learn best practices for developing and deploying an ETL pipeline with varied latency from continuous ingestion to hourly incremental loads. You'll run hands-on examples of creating a medallion architecture using both Spark Structured Streaming and Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines.
- • Ingest streaming data, refine it and serve it for downstream use cases
- • Spark syntax for incremental data processing
- • How checkpoints work and monitoring streaming pipelines
- • Common table configurations and scheduling with Lakeflow Jobs
End-to-End AI on Databricks
Walk through an end-to-end AI solution on Databricks. You'll start with the AI development environment with real-time collaboration and AI assistance, then move through data prep at scale, feature development, model training, deployment and monitoring. Get a reusable template to jump-start your journey of putting models into production.
- • AI development environment with real-time collaboration
- • Data prep at scale with pandas on Apache Spark™
- • Feature store for a single source of truth
- • Glass box AutoML for rapid ML prototyping
- • Deployment to Mosaic Model Serving and Lakehouse Monitoring
Intro to Databricks
Another session of our introductory workshop for those who are completely new to the platform. Perfect if you missed the first session or want to bring along colleagues who are just getting started with Databricks.
Register nowUnified Governance with Unity Catalog
Get hands-on guidance using Unity Catalog, the unified governance solution for all data and AI assets. You'll learn how it works with your existing data catalogs and storage solutions to build a future-proof governance model, and see how to upgrade your tables to include these benefits.
- • Unified data governance across your lakehouse
- • Centralized metadata and user management
- • Centralized data access controls
- • Identity federation
- • Data exploration and data lineage
Week 3 & 4: January 20 to 30
Databricks SQL and Serverless
Learn about Delta Lake, Databricks SQL and serverless offerings. You'll discover how to operate a lakehouse architecture that delivers data warehouse performance at data lake economics with up to 12x better price performance than traditional cloud data warehouses.
- • Overview of the Data Intelligence Platform and how Databricks SQL fits in
- • Benefits of Delta in the modern data ecosystem
- • Managing and monitoring compute resources, data access and users
- • Using Databricks SQL to query your data lake with built-in tools
- • New serverless offerings and future roadmap
Data + AI World Tour Virtual
Explore the latest innovations in data and AI on your schedule. Watch key sessions featuring the latest updates to the Data Intelligence Platform, including product demos, feature launches, AI advancements and real-world use cases from regional customers.
- • 9:00 AM - Opening remarks and Databricks keynote
- • 9:40 AM - Customer highlights
- • 10:30 AM - Self-guided breakout sessions
- • Unity Catalog: From foundations to best practices
- • Building production-ready AI and multi-agent systems with Agent Bricks
- • Introducing Lakeflow: The future of data engineering on Databricks
- • Lakebase: Fully managed Postgres for the lakehouse
- • Databricks SQL: Getting started and what's new with live demos
- • Databricks Apps: Turning data and AI into practical applications
- • And more
Production-Ready Agents on Databricks
Another session of our Agent Bricks workshop. Perfect if you missed the earlier session or want to dive deeper into building production-ready AI agent systems.
Register nowLakebase: Fully Managed Postgres for the Lakehouse
Another session to learn about Lakebase and how it unlocks operational and transactional use cases with low-latency reads and writes.
Register nowETL: Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines & Structured Streaming
Another opportunity to learn best practices for developing and deploying ETL pipelines with hands-on examples.
Register nowEmbedded Analytics with Databricks AI/BI
Final session for January on embedding Databricks AI/BI Dashboards and Genie into your applications.
Register nowUnified Governance with Unity Catalog
Final workshop of the month focused on unified governance for all your data and AI assets.
Register nowLocal Data + AI Pioneer Bootcamps
Join an in-person, hands-on bootcamp near you. Learn Databricks AI/BI and advanced AI workflows with expert guidance. Seats are limited.
Data + AI Pioneer Bootcamp — San Francisco
Data + AI Pioneer Bootcamp — New York City
About the Bootcamps
Data Pioneer Bootcamp
Today’s businesses need more than just data—they need real-time insights that drive action. In this in-person bootcamp, you’ll get hands-on experience with Databricks AI/BI, learning how to seamlessly explore, analyze, and visualize your data with a Databricks Warehouse. With guidance from Databricks experts, you’ll see firsthand how an integrated approach to business intelligence can help you make faster, more informed decisions—all within a single, unified platform.
- • Explore and organize your data using Unity Catalog
- • Query and analyze your data with a Databricks Warehouse
- • Build interactive AI/BI Dashboards to visualize key insights
- • Go beyond dashboards with AI/BI Genie to interact in natural language
AI Pioneer Bootcamp
Unlock the power of AI with Databricks in this hands-on bootcamp that dives into GenAI, Advanced Machine Learning (ML), and MLOps/LLMOps. Equip yourself to build, deploy, and scale sophisticated AI models — all within the Databricks Platform. With expert guidance, you’ll explore cutting-edge AI techniques and learn how to integrate the entire AI lifecycle into your systems.
- • Design robust, autonomous AI Agent Systems with the Agent Framework
- • Use Agent Evaluation to optimize performance with custom metrics
- • Streamline deployment via Batch Inference and Model Serving
- • Utilize AI Gateway to simplify API management across models
- • Maximize observability, security and governance with Unity Catalog
Additional Resources
Self-paced learning
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Databricks Academy
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Documentation
Comprehensive guides and API references
Community & support
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Databricks Community
Connect with peers, ask questions and find local meetups
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Solution Accelerators
Pre-packaged solutions to accelerate your path to production
Workshop Calendar
January 2026 Workshop Schedule
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