This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2020, which was supposed to be held in Vienna, Austria, in November 2020, but the conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 28 full and 16 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. This events covers a wide range of topics, and the papers are organized in the following sessions:

foundations of conceptual modeling

process mining and conceptual modeling

conceptual modeling of business rules and processes

modeling chatbots, narratives and natural language

ontology and conceptual modeling

applications of conceptual modeling

schema design, evolution, NoSQL

empirical studies of conceptual modeling

networks, graphs and conceptual modeling

conceptual modeling of complex and data-rich systems