The Linux Foundation has started a new conference, the OpenIoT Summit, April 4-6 in San Diego, California. Call for Papers is open, closes in a few days, Feburary 5th.
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/openiot-summit
OpenIoT Summit is a technical event created to serve the unique needs of system architects, firmware developers, software developers and application developers in this emerging IoT ecosystem.
Amongst the buzzwords in their CfP’s Suggested Topics were: “Device and Firmware Management“, so maybe something interesting at this event. 🙂
Their CfP list of IoT frameworks/OSes:
AllJoyn, IoTivity, Linux, Soletta, Weave, Yocto Project, and Small, real-time OSes (e.g. Contiki, FreeRTOS, RIoT).
Firmware Security 