The event, dubbed the Global Conference on Mobile App Ecosystem Fairness, is organized by CAF (the Coalition for App Fairness)—group of companies striving for the same purpose headquartered in Washington, D.C.
At the conference, which is happening on November 15 and 16, Tim Sweeney will be joined by the CAF Executive Director (Meghan DiMuzio), the French Secretary of State for Digital Transition (Cédric O), and Senior Vice President and Head of Global Government Relations & Policy at Match Group (Mark Buse), among various other influential figures.
We still lack any solid details around the conference’s planned discussion topics, but judging from the well-known group of attendees, we can fairly confidently assert that it will involve discourse on legal matters and criticism surrounding Apple and Google’s mobile marketplace monopolies.
The choice of location for the conference could be related to a recent law that was passed in South Korea, which mandates that all app store platforms accept third-party payment systems, rather than forcing developers to take payments through the app store platforms, and losing a large chunk of revenue that way.
