§16§This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies, ICIST 2020, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, in October 2020.§The 23 full papers and 7 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on business intelligence for information and software system; software engineering; information technology applications.§ § § § § § § §04§Business Intelligence for Information and Software Systems - Special Session on Intelligent Methods for Data Analysis and Computer Aided Software Engineering.- Software Engineering - Special Session on Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances.- Information Technology Applications - Special Session on Smart e-Learning Technologies and Applications.- Information Technology Applications - Special Session on Language Technologies.