Barrington’s Town-Warming event will have its most prominent keynote speaker to date, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a Zoom event with more affordable ticket prices than usual.
The theme of the Jan. 23 event will be “What Now? Looking Ahead to the Post-Pandemic World.” Another keynote speaker will be William M. Daley, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
The event typically sells out quickly and is held at Barrington’s White House, where capacity is limited to about 200 people including the upstairs ballroom and a livestream on the first floor, village spokeswoman Patty Dowd Schmitz said.
Tickets normally are $150 per person, but they will be $75 per household this year because multiple people can watch on one screen, she said.
The event is presented by Barrington’s cultural commission and is made possible by Motorola CEO Greg Brown and his wife, Anna, who sponsor the keynote speakers, and Northern Trust, the presenting sponsor.
The Browns are Barrington Hills residents. Greg Brown was a panel speaker in 2018, then became actively involved in securing and sponsoring keynote speakers by leveraging his personal relationships, Dowd Schmitz said.
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