The 8th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2017) provides a unique showcase for outstanding research on solid state, non-volatile memories. It features a “vertically integrated” program that includes presentations on devices, data encoding, systems architecture, and applications related to these exciting new data storage technologies. Last year’s workshop (NVMW 2016) included 40 speakers from top universities, industrial research labs, and device manufacturers and attracted nearly 230 attendees. (The website for NVMW 2016 can be found at http://nvmw.ucsd.edu/2016.) NVMW 2017 will build on this success.