A new university program gives students hands-on experience with real enterprises while helping companies turn the expertise of their workforce into a durable, owned asset.
IRVINE, CA – June 26, 2026 – EON AI Ventures today announced the launch of the Work Intelligence Fellowship, a university partnership program that places student teams with enterprises to capture and structure the expertise of the modern workforce. The Fellowship combines hands-on, credit-bearing academic work for students with a fast-growing enterprise need: turning the hard-won knowledge of experts and field workers — knowledge that is increasingly walking out the door — into a structured asset companies own.
In many organizations, the most valuable knowledge is undocumented, living only in the experience of senior staff and skilled field workers. As those experts retire or move on, that knowledge is lost. At the same time, hundreds of mid-size universities work to give their students — including the international students who increasingly fund them — the real enterprise experience that careers require, yet struggle to deliver it at scale. The Work Intelligence Fellowship is designed to close both gaps at once. The program’s vision, methodology, and enterprise–education collaboration model are detailed in the accompanying white paper, “Work Intelligence Fellowship: Capturing How Work Gets Done — and the Fellowship That Scales It.”
Through the program, students join as Fellows in one of two tracks. Work Intelligence Analysts research industries and engage companies as researchers; Work Intelligence Architects use EON’s Genesis and Field IQ platforms to capture expert knowledge and structure it into reusable form. The work is organized as a credit-bearing capstone, supervised by faculty and modeled on established programs such as university consulting capstones. Students earn genuine enterprise experience, a portfolio deliverable and a professional reference; the strongest Fellows are invited into paid roles.
The Fellowship advances EON’s category of Work Intelligence, which the company positions as a fourth enterprise system of record alongside ERP, CRM and PLM — a system for capturing how work is actually performed and turning it into a lasting asset.
The Fellowship is led by Anna Lejerskar, Dean of the EON Academy at EON AI Ventures, who has built the company’s university and talent programs and now drives the Fellowship end to end — from university partnerships to the selection and development of every cohort of Fellows.
“There is a generation of talented students who can’t get the experience employers ask for, and a generation of hard-won expertise inside companies that is quietly being lost. The Work Intelligence Fellowship connects the two,” said Anna Lejerskar. “I’ve spent years working with young people, and what they need most is a real chance to do meaningful work. This gives them that — and it gives enterprises something they can’t get anywhere else.”
Universities interested in partnering through the Work Intelligence Fellowship can learn more here and view the university presentation.
Students interested in joining the Work Intelligence Fellowship can learn more here and view the student presentation.
Read more in the “Work Intelligence Fellowship: Capturing How Work Gets Done — and the Fellowship That Scales It.” white paper.
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About EON AI Ventures
EON AI Ventures is the enterprise software company behind Work Intelligence – the captured, verified, and compounding knowledge of how expert work is actually done. Its Intelligence Flywheel platform (Genesis, Field IQ, Assess IQ) enables industrial enterprises to encode expert procedures into AI-guided simulations, deliver them to any worker on any device, and verify competency in the field. EON AI Ventures builds on more than twenty-five years of immersive, simulation, and AI technology developed across the EON group, whose platforms have served thousands of institutional customers in more than eighty countries. For more information, visit www.eonaiventures.com.