software for planning special events, meetings, training sessions, trade-shows and stage, cinema and television productions; software for laying out room and stage arrangements for special events, meetings, trade-shows and stage, cinema and television productions and generating virtual images of layouts; software for laying out lighting, media content, and special effects and generating virtual static and dynamic audio/visual depictions of layouts for special events, meetings, training sessions, trade-shows and stage, cinema and television productions; software for automating lighting, special effects and the display of media content at special events, meetings, training sessions, trade-shows and stage, cinema and television productions; software for communicating with sensing devices, namely, RFID sensors, SONAR devices, RADAR devices, infrared cameras, microphones, stereoscopic cameras, light sensors and pressure sensors, and controlling lights, motors, set pieces, cameras, projectors, monitors, sensing devices, pyrotechnics and media servers according to user-selected parameters; hardware for automating lighting, special effects and the display of media content at special events, meetings, training sessions, trade-shows and stage, cinema and television productions, namely, electronic controllers for lights, motors, set pieces, cameras, projectors, sensing devices, pyrotechnics and media servers