This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies, SmartGift 2024a, which was a virtual event, held during March 23–24, 2024.The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions.

.- Wireless Communication and Distribution Network. .- Machine Learning for Ambient Backscatter Channel Estimation and Signal Detection: Opportunities and Challenges. .- Phased array networking TT&C relay terminal with interference suppression technology. .- On IT and OT Cybersecurity Datasets for Machine Learning-based Intrusion Detection in Industrial Control Systems. .- Rate Distortion Analysis of Wavefield Coding in Wireless Geophone Networks. .- Artificial Intelligence Technologies. .- ECIC: A content and context integrated data acquisition method for Artificial Internet of Things. .- A two-stage inference method based on graph neural network for wind farm SCADA data. .- A Comprehensive Evaluation Method for KG-Augmented Large Language Models. .- Security in Wireless Communication. .- Collaborative-based Batch Verification Scheme for Event-driven Messages in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. .- Enhancing Mobile Communication System Security via Neural Cryptography Applications. .- System Design for Smart Grid and IoT. .- EcoIntegrity: AI-Augmented Blockchain Framework for Carbon Footprint Tracking and Incentives in IoT. .- Development Pitfalls: A Case Study in Developing a Smart Grid Co-Simulation Platform Based on HELICS.