The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) are collaborating to organize a Polar Early Career World Summit. It will be held alongside the International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP) IV and the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) in Boulder, Colorado, US in March 2025 with the aim to bring together early career researchers, professionals, Indigenous scholars and knowledge holders connected to the Arctic, Antarctica, and the wider cryosphere from across the world. We will have discussions to: