On 23 November 2016 the Netherlands Demographic Society (NVD) hosted the 8th Dutch Demography Day in the Academy Building of Utrecht (Domplein). The plenary session started with a keynote speech by Professor Jean-Marie Robine (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale and École Pratique des Hautes Études), entitled “The Revolution of Adult Longevity”. During the day demographers and researchers from several disciplines presented their research in three rounds of parallel sessions and one poster session. The 2016 NVD Poster Award was won by Ellen Dingemans (Nederlandse Interdisciplinair Demografisch Instituut – NIDI) for her poster “Working after retirement and life satisfaction”. Summaries of the presentations and posters can be found in the Book of Abstracts.