These are short, rapid-fire, one-slided talks that look at an important breakthrough from the past, a challenge or problem for the future or a piece of advice to attending young researchers. Moderator: Tom Crawford Raj Reddy: Eliminating Covid Lockdowns Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan: Reflections on a Research Career Jack J. Dongarra: Today’s High Performance Computing Environment for Scientific Computing Martin Hellman: Wisdom of Foolishness Leslie Lamport: The Byzantine Generals in 3-1/4 Minutes Efim Zelmanov: Algebra: What’s Next? Vinton Gray Cerf: Status of the Interplanetary Internet John E. Hopcroft: Talent for the Information Age Adi Shamir: How Difficult Is It to Solve Systems of Equations over ReLU-based Deep Neural Networks? The 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 22–27, 2024. #HLF24