Wild Lights at Dublin Zoo - 300,000 + people each year

work days on site for our Operational Safety Team
workshops held covering a wide range of industry-specific topics
headline acts performing in amazing custom spaces across the 3 days
people went through our Safety Induction, in a variety of languages
individual Safety Documents reviewed by our Operational Safety Team
individual vendor scopes involved in contributing to the event's successful delivery
While the inaugural year required us to share personnel with the nearby Soundstorm festival due to tight timelines, subsequent editions have benefited from a dedicated three-person Operational Safety Team focused solely on XP’s unique demands.
This consistency has allowed us to anticipate and address the event’s particular nuances – ranging from conference-style daytime programming to high-energy nighttime performances – ensuring a seamless and safe experience for all attendees.
Though smaller in scale than some of the other MDLBEAST shows we support, XP still enjoys the full benefit of our proven safety methodology. We integrate our Digital Operations programme into the event, enabling real-time communication, incident tracking, and operational oversight – giving both the client and our team on the ground the confidence that every detail is covered.
Our role – ensuring safe and efficient delivery – has supported XP’s steady growth in size, complexity, and impact. The event now features eight distinct industry initiatives, from Hunna, empowering women in the music industry, to Sound Futures, nurturing music-focused startups, and an Artist Management Bootcamp for emerging managers.
By embedding safety into every aspect of the event, we enable organisers to focus on creating and expanding these high-value programmes with confidence.
This “safety by design” approach helps ensure that XP can continue to champion the music scene in Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East, year after year, without compromise to attendee experience or operational integrity.
For us, supporting XP is about more than just meeting safety requirements – it’s about helping an event we believe in thrive, scale, and inspire.
We work incredibly closely with Safe Events Global on an ongoing basis, typically across a wide range of challenging event projects simultaneously.
We need a Health & Safety partner that can be responsive and that isn't afraid to work with us to figure out how to safely do new things.
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