Fresh off the heels of winning the Capgemini global innovation award, Sheryl Chamberlain, VP of Global Partner Executive of Capgemini Global Channels & Partners, spoke with Jeff Frick of theCUBE about their major projects.

“What Capgemini has been doing over the last couple of years is working with Pivotal and EMC on something called business data lakes,” she said. “So it’s really a co-innovation, and that’s what we do best together.”

Promoting innovation

Chamberlain is involved with Women of World as well as Hult, a business school promoting innovation. One initiative run by the school is an annual social development competition. One event challenged students to find solutions for hunger around the world, capturing the attention of President Clinton.

“This idea that these young students are thinking through a social problem like this. And then they’ll go through an incubation period,” Chamberlain said. “Once they win at that campus, and they present their winning idea … and the winning team gets a million dollars to carry their idea forward.”

Chamberlain is also committed to helping more women become active partners in the tech industry.

“I think we show the path to men and women so that they work together in a collaborative way,” she explained. “I think most of my mentees would say that they like the idea that it’s not just women that I work with, that it’s men also. And therefore we get both perspectives.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of EMC World 2015.