Weekly Update May 11, 2022

The Providencia Award
Congratulations to Equestrian Sport Productions, and Executive Board Member, and Vice Chair of the Chamber, Michael Stone, and his team for being voted and recognized as Discover the Palm Beaches Providencia Award winner of the Year for Palm Beach County.

The Providencia Award is given annually to a local business, organization or individual based on their extraordinary contributions (i.e. expansion of facilities, new events and outstanding business levels) to the vitality and prosperity of The Palm Beaches as a tourist destination.

Vaneli Bojkova, Executive Vice President, and Elaine Wessel, Marketing Manager of Equestrian Sport Productions, receive the Discover the Palm Beaches prestigious Providencia Award on behalf of their organization.

Chamber Events

Community Notices
First New Oceangoing, Dry Cargo Barge of its Size Built in America in Nearly 20 Years Departed Port of Palm Beach on Maiden Delivery of Locally Grown and Milled Raw Sugar

American Sugar Refining, Inc.’s newly constructed barge, ‘Knot Refined,’ is transporting 18,000 tons of raw sugar from its parent companies – Florida Crystals Corporation and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida – to its Domino® Sugar Refinery in New York.

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (May 9, 2022) – American Sugar Refining, Inc., a member of West Palm Beach-based ASR Group, and its parent companies – Florida Crystals Corporation and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida – celebrated the maiden voyage of its newly constructed, state-of-the-art barge, Knot Refined, which departed from the Port of Palm Beach on Friday to deliver 18,000 tons of Palm Beach County-grown and -milled raw sugar to ASR Group’s Domino® Sugar Refinery in New York.

The 450-foot-long Knot Refined took more than two years to construct and is the first ocean-going, dry cargo barge of its size built in the United States since the early 2000s. The investment in the barge, which will make approximately 18 round trips per year from the Port of Palm Beach to transport raw sugar primarily to ASR Group’s cane sugar refineries in Yonkers, New York and Baltimore, Maryland, will further vertically integrate the operations of ASR Group and its parent companies.

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Hurricane season starts June 1, and many of our Palm Beach County neighbors are making sure they are prepared. As you update hurricane supplies, keep in mind that some items should not be placed in the garbage, but instead, be brought to one of the SWA’s Home Chemical and Recycling Centers.

Supplies requiring special disposal include:
gasoline and oil from generators
propane tanks
rechargeable batteries from electronics or flashlights

These items (and other home hazards) can be dropped off for free by Palm Beach County residents at any of the Home Chemical and Recycling Centers listed below, where they will be recycled or disposed of properly.

For more information and locations, click here.

Chamber Member Flyers

Community Events
You have ideas, drive, and a vision of success, but what steps will you take to make that vision a reality? Learn to map your way forward from successful innovators who will share hard-earned tips from their own journeys. Register for part one of this free, online event series.

The event will feature:
Dr. Ritu Raman, d'Arbeloff Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Gurtej Sandhu, Senior Fellow and Vice President at Micron Technology and prolific inventor named on more than 1,300 patents
Jun Ye, Ph.D., Professor Adjoint at the University of Colorado Department of Physics, JILA Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Fellow, and National Academy of Sciences member

Join us on Tuesday, May 17, 2 – 3:30 p.m. ET. A detailed agenda and speaker information will be provided as the event approaches.

Remember to also register for part two of the series: Innovating for real-world solutions, which will take place on Wednesday, May 18.

The Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Innovation and Entrepreneurship program is presented by the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Office of Innovation Outreach. For more information, please contact [email protected].

The content and opinions shared by our guest speakers during this program are not those of the USPTO, nor are they an endorsement of any persons, products, programs, or policies mentioned during the event.

Do you see a problem that you know you can fix? Do you want to improve the world with your creativity and drive? Learn from successful innovators how they approach, understand, and solve challenges, and how intellectual property protection has been key to their success. Register for part two of this free, online event series.

Guests will include:

Dilip Goswami, Founder and CEO, Molekule
Hoala Greevy, Founder, Paubox
Olin Kealoha Lagon, Founder and CTO, Shifted Energy
Rakesh Srivastava, President and CEO, Innovative Prosthetics and Orthotics
Mylen Yamamoto Tansingco, Founder and Creator, Cropsticks®
Dr. Hyunwoo Yuk, Co-Founder and CTO, SanaHeal

Join us Wednesday, May 18, 2 – 3:30 p.m. ET. A detailed agenda and speaker information will be provided as the event approaches.

Remember to also register for part one of this series: Find pathways to breakthroughs, which will take place on Tuesday, May 17.

The Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Innovation and Entrepreneurship program is presented by the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Office of Innovation Outreach. For more information, please contact [email protected].

The content and opinions shared by our guest speakers during this program are not those of the USPTO, nor are they an endorsement of any persons, products, programs, or policies mentioned during the event.

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