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The Carework Network organized a bilingual (Spanish and English) three-day conference and brought together carework researchers, scholars, and stakeholders from across the globe. More than 250 people attended the Third Global Carework Summit, a substantial increase from previous Summits. Our participants came from 32 countries and represented various interest groups, including academics, activists, and policymakers. Over three days, we held three keynote events, 35 sessions of presentations, two lunchtime conversations with book authors, and many opportunities to network and share ideas. Our theme, “Carework in uncertain times: convergences and divergences around the world,” represents our focus on uncertainty along multiple intersecting dimensions: social, economic, political, and ecological. This uncertainty has long been evident in Latin America and other regions in the global south. The COVID-19 pandemic and its reverberating shocks have deepened uncertainty and made it more visible worldwide. In the third global summit, we asked questions such as 1) How does uncertainty shape the understanding and social organization of carework? 2) How does putting carework at the center help us imagine sustainable futures where care is a collective responsibility? 3) What are the convergences in how carework is understood and organized globally? and 4) What are the divergences, given varied capacities, cultures, histories, and experiences in different countries and regions? We received submissions in English and Spanish that moved beyond paid and unpaid care binaries and probed intersections of individuals, families, community, market, and the state. Participants at the conference engaged in analysis of the interlocking inequalities of gender, class, race, and migration, and convergences and divergences in the understanding and social organization of carework across regions, using different approaches that analyze a specific sectoral or geographic context.