Welcome to the 16th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2020), which this year (for the first time since 2007) is co-located with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The IWPT meeting series, hosted by the ACL Special Interest Group in Natural Language Parsing (SIGPARSE), has been held biennualy since its inaugual meeting in 1989 in Pittsburgh, PA (USA).For 2020, the SIGPARSE steering group decided to try out something new, co-location with the main ACL meeting in the form of a reduced one-day IWPT programme. The main motivation for this move was to reduce fragmentation (and travel) and to increase IWPT visibility in the 'mainstream' ACL community (we already know that at least one of these goals was attained). At the same time, IWPT launches its own series of parsing shared tasks this year, which strengthens the experimental and applied perspective on parsing technologies in the conference programme.The IWPT 2020 shared task focuses on the parsing of Enhanced Universal Dependencies (EUD) over 17 languages. This is the first time that graph-based representations of syntactic structures are evaluated on such a large scale, and we believe it will pave way for research on richer models and representations. The task attracted system submissions from ten teams from around the world and, thus, establishes a highly relevant point of comparison for this line of syntactic analysis. We are very grateful to everyone who contributed to this shared task, starting with the data providers who worked hard to meet our deadline. Thanks to the participant teams who worked tirelessly in a short time period to provide such a set of great and interesting systems! Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic this year, the meeting will regrettably be held entirely virtual, where for IWPT we have adopted a mostly-asynchronous format: Accepted papers (of three different types: long, short, and shared task) will be presented through pre-recorded talks, which become available online for individual viewing before the actual conference day. On the original date of the conference, July 9, there will be a three-hour live session, scheduled so that the timing should be convenient (all things considered) for participants around the world: 14:00-17:00 UTC, which translates, for example, into a starting time at 7:00 in the morning at the US West Coast and wrapping up at 1:00 in the morning in Melbourne, Australia. The live sessions will be devoted exclusively to questions and answers, organized into five thematic sessions. Authors of papers associated with each session will be available to answer questions and disucss their work (possibly also among themselves).There has been (and to some degree still is) much uncertainty about the format of ACL and IWPT this year, and in a sense we were positively surprised to receive a number of submissions comparable to recent IWPT instances. Out of 24 regular paper submissions, the programme committee accepted 14 for presentation at the conference. The IWPT 2020 progr...