This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP TC 10 International Embedded Systems Symposium, IESS 2024, held in Gainesville, FL, USA, during October 14–15, 2024.The 9 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Architectures and Integration for Intelligent Embedded Systems; Hardware-Aware Deep Learning for Edge and Mobile Platforms; Digital Twins and Smart Environments for Autonomous and Urban Systems.