Defending champions Australia head pool B which includes England, Bangladesh and Ireland.
Pool C has last year's runners-up, Pakistan, in the mix with South Africa, India and hosts Hong Kong.
The only cricket tourney in the country, it was first staged in 1992 with the blessings of the International Cricket Council and the boards of the test-playing nations.
Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar, Steve and Mark Waugh, Viv Richards, Andrew Flintoff, Adam Gilchrist and Wasim Akram, to name but a few, have played in it.
Noema-Barnett, competing in his second tournament after the Kiwis finished fifth last year, is happy with his build-up.
He has been a part of the Stags camp in Napier with CD coach Alan Hunt before the four-day Plunket Shield competition starts in Lincoln, Christchurch, on November 14.
CD are playing a warm-up game against Northern Districts at Nelson Park next week.
"I've also spent a good couple of weeks at the New Zealand Elite Camp in Christchurch," said Noema-Barnett, who has also played a match for the Hawke's Bay men's team in their Chapple Cup campaign, albeit with rain interruptions.
Talking up New Zealand's chances this month, Oram said before heading to Zimbabwe: "As shown in the HRV Cup, Kieran Noema-Barnett is one of the most destructive batsmen in the country so this format will certainly suit him."
The humidity at the former British colony will be the leveller with the condensed arena likely to maximise lusty sixes.
Noema-Barnett feels the Sixes are effectively an entree to higher international honours but he needed to work harder.
"The Black Caps' fielding is fantastic. There's nowhere to hide."
Noema-Barnett is keen to play with Oram, a fellow Stag who he doesn't see much of because of thge latter player's commitment to international duites.
NZ team (CD in bold): Jacob Oram (c), Nathan McCullum, James Franklin, Luke Woodcock, Rob Nicol, Kieran Noema- Barnett, Derek de Boorder.