This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Computing, ICCC 2024, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2024, held in Bangkok, Thailand, during November 16-19, 2024. The 6 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: research track; application track; and short paper track.