We are delighted to invite you to the 16th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: Challenges in polar self-assembling systems. The series of International Conferences on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (FLC's) is devoted to basic and applied aspects of new self-assembling materials possessing chiral and polar structures and properties. These conferences have been organized in odd years in between International Conferences on Liquid Crystals.